Preschool Teachers

Instruct preschool-aged children in activities designed to promote social, physical, and intellectual growth needed for primary school in preschool, day care center, or other child development facility. May be required to hold State certification.

On the job, you would:

Establish and enforce rules for behavior and procedures for maintaining order.

Organize and lead activities designed to promote physical, mental, and social development, such as games, arts and crafts, music, storytelling, and field trips.

Teach basic skills, such as color, shape, number and letter recognition, personal hygiene, and social skills.

Knowledge

Business

customer service

Education and Training

teaching and course design

Arts and Humanities

English language

Math and Science

psychology

Skills

Basic Skills

talking to others

using the best training or teaching strategies for learning new things

Social

teaching people how to do something

changing what is done based on other people's actions

Problem Solving

noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it

Abilities

Verbal

communicate by speaking

listen and understand what people say

Ideas and Logic

notice when problems happen

create new and original ideas

Attention

do two or more things at the same time

pay attention to something without being distracted

Personality

People interested in this work like activities that include helping people, teaching, and talking.